Kulturpalast Saalfeld – Kaulsdorf Castle loop from Unterwellenborn

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Kulturpalast Saalfeld – Kaulsdorf Castle loop from Unterwellenborn

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Kulturpalast Saalfeld – Kaulsdorf Castle loop from Unterwellenborn

03:56

85.0km

960m

Road cycling

Hard road ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 8, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 71.3 km for 158 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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969 m

Kulturpalast Saalfeld

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Nice destination 🦊

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7.60 km

Kaulsdorf Castle

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Schloss (Castle) Kaulsdorf was built on a rocky outcrop, the peak of which reaches up to 130 m to the Saale. Two old long-distance paths run on both sides of …

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10.0 km

View of Schloss Eichicht

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View of Eichicht Castle, a medieval castle and palace complex, elevated on a mountain spur near the mouth of the Loquitz into the Saale. Today privately owned.

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30.3 km

Heinrichshütte Foundry Museum, Wurzbach

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The Heinrichshütte, which was built in 1729, is the only one of the ten hammer and ironworks that originally existed between the 16th and 18th centuries in the Wurzbacher and …

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31.6 km

Colorful Transformer Tower Wurzbach

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The Leipzig artist Michael Fischer-Art designed the old transformer tower. The idea for this came from Kunsthaus Müller, who run a gallery right next to the tower. The project was …

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39.7 km

Slate architecture in Lehesten

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Perfect tarmac. Things are going well here—at least downhill ;)

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83.5 km

Maxhütte Blast Furnace Industrial Monument

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Remains of the last two blast furnaces of the Maxhütte Unterwellenborn, which went into operation in 1872 (raw and cast iron production and its further processing in the steel and …

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83.7 km

Industrial Monument Gas Engine Center Maxhütte

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These are the last contemporary witnesses of the iron and steel production of the Maxhütte Unterwellenborn. The gas engine center was a museum, but is now closed (as far as I know)

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85.0 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

50.0 km

23.7 km

5.10 km

4.95 km

891 m

473 m

Surfaces

81.3 km

3.05 km

378 m

288 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (690 m)

Lowest point (230 m)

Weather

Friday 9 October

16°C

8°C

65 %

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Max wind speed: 20.0 km/h

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Comments

July 20, 2025,Meine Hausrunde Rennradtour

Tours in my beautiful hometown...today, my road bike ride, which I've been riding for several years.
Start and finish at my front door, below the windmill.
The road conditions on this ride are excellent, and very quiet on a Sunday morning. It's a good climb up to Steinbach, but from the roundabout towards Ludwigstadt, it's "fire away!" Basically, it's full …

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